# 1850 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 18 March – Opening of the Britannia Bridge.
* 3 April – G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.
* 18 June – Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea.
* October – The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman.
* November – The first issue of the periodical Y Drych is printed, though not in circulation for another two months
* 14 December – 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
* unknown dates
** The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman.
** Vaendre Hall in the village of St Mellons is completed, the home of the industrialist John Cory.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) – Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary
* 'Elen Egryn' (Elin Evans) – Telyn Egryn (poems)
* Elijah Waring – Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams
* Morris Williams (Nicander) – Y Psalmwyr

### Music

* September – North Wales Musical Festival is held at Rhuddlan Castle.

## Births

* 1 January – Evan Rees (Dyfed), minister, poet and archdruid (died 1923)
* 4 January – Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
* 16 April – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)
* 24 November – John Aeron Thomas, politician (died 1935)
* date unknown
** Alfred Davies, footballer (died 1891)
** John Evan Davies, minister and author (died 1929)
** Owen Owen, teacher and schools inspector (died 1920)

## Deaths

* 11 April
** David Hughes, clergyman and writer, 64?
** Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), poet, 77
* 18 April – John Richards, Welsh-born US politician, 85
* 19 April – Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80
* 11 July – Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83
* 28 July – David Lewis, Carmarthenshire priest and writer, 90?
* 2 September – Charles Williams-Wynn, politician, 74
* 19 December – George Williams, politician, 85